PAKINGTON, of WESTWOOD PARK, co. Worcester.

22 June 1620

     Sir JOHN PAKINGTON Bart., D.C.L., born 1760, succeeded his father, sir Herbert-Perrot, 1795.

     The antiquity of this family is unquestionable; it is manifest from the foundation of the monastery of Kenilworth, that they flourished temp. Henry I. Robert Parkington lived temp. Henry IV.

     I. Sir JOHN, son of sir John Pakington, K.B., a great favorite of queen Elizabeth, was created a bart., 22 June 1620. He was member for Aylesbury, m. Frances, da. of sir John Ferrers, of Tamworth, co. Leicester, knt., and d. 29 Oct. 1624 leaving issue by her (who re-m. Alexander Lesley, earl of Leven) a da., m. 1st, col. Washington; and 2dly, Samuel Sandys; and one son,

     II. Sir JOHN, elected one of the knights for Worcester, 15 Charles I., and, when the rebellion broke out, was a member for Aylesbury. He was entrusted by the king in 1642, with a commission for arraying men for his service in Worcestershire; on account of which he was taken prisoner, committed to the Tower, and fined  X5000, had his estate sequestrated, his house, in Burkinghamshire (one of the best in that county) leveled with the ground, and such great wastes committed in his woods, that an estimate of his loss, now remaining in the hand-writing of his lady, amounts to £20,348. Notwithstanding he had suffered so much for his loyalty, he had the courage to go with a troop of horse to Charles II., at the battle of Worcester, and was taken prisoner there; but when the rebels tried him for his life (upon an indictment of his raising and heading of a troop at the battle of Worcester), they could not procure one witness to swear against him; he was therefore acquitted, and set at liberty, but was afterwards fined £7670. Sir John m. Dorothy, da. of Thomas lord Coventry, keeper of the great seal, a most accomplished person, and bright example of wisdom and piety; she was the

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